''We need Falkland Islands...for strategic sheep purposes''! What is mean by ''strategic sheep purposes''?

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''We need Falkland Islands...for strategic sheep purposes''! What is mean by ''strategic sheep purposes''?

Question #147275. Asked by mariappank511.
Last updated Dec 27 2019.
Originally posted Dec 27 2019 1:02 AM.

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It's an Eddie Izzard comedy set. He was talking about the loss of Great Britain's 'Empire' after WWII. (And, I suppose, the Falklands War in 1982). Why does the UK need the Falklands? For strategic sheep purposes: there isn't much there except sheep.
All this delivered while in drag with makeup. He's too funny.

So after World War II, the whole world was going,
"Come on, Europe, give these countries back. Come on, we just had a bloody war; let's give 'em back. Britain?"
"Wha'?"
"What's that behind your back?"
"Oh, it's India and a number of other countries."
"Give 'em back."
"Oh, all right. There's that one there, and there's that one..."
"Falkland Islands?"
"Oh, we need the Falkland Islands... for strategic sheep purposes!"
Yeah. And then it was a case of no empire no longer.

http://www.auntiemomo.com/cakeordeath/d2ktranscription.html#strategicsheep

Dec 27 2019, 3:04 AM

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Answer 1

That comedy bit from Eddie Izzard was meant to suggest that the UK really had no need for the Falkland Islands. It is a British Overseas Territory which has nothing obvious to offer in terms of resources or strategic military location. It does have a lot of sheep, which are included in the official flag.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/TheFalklandIslands

''We need Falkland Islands...for strategic sheep purposes''! What is mean by ''strategic sheep purposes''?

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